What the records say
- When
- 1979 – 1989
- Kind
- Genocide
- Deaths
- 562,000
- Coordinates
- 33.93° N, 69.16° E
- Description
- 1979–1989 killings in Afghanistan
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Placed at the middle of related events.
Soviet war crimes in the Soviet–Afghan War
1979–1989 killings in Afghanistan
Atrocity crimes in the Soviet–Afghan War were systematically perpetrated on a large scale by the Soviet Union and its allies from 1979 to 1989, with several scholars and academics concluding that the Soviet military forces carried out a campaign of genocide against Afghans. The war resulted in the deaths of between 1,000,000 and 3,000,000 Afghans. Estimates of Afghan civilian deaths vary from 562,000 to 2,000,000.
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- Operation Baikal-7925 Dec 1979 · Military operation
- Saur Revolution27 Apr 1978 · Revolution
- 3 Hoot uprising22 Feb 1980 · Rebellion · Deaths 600
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